TANCREDI & CLORINDA / TROY GAME

Claudio Monteverdi: Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (The Combat of Tancredi and Clorinda)
Contemporary Opera - Premier

Besides the countless religious pieces and madrigals, three true operas by Claudio Monteverdi survived in the over four hundred years of opera history. Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda has a special, intermediate place in his oeuvre:  the tragedy of the two knights is not a theatrical work yet, but it already tells a story. There are no well-formed characters and dialogues in it yet, but there are exciting lines spoken by the characters, and a narrator telling and commenting the whole story, painting every word with its vocal part. The work composed for the 1624 Venetian Carnival is slightly shorter than half an hour with a thin plotline set at the time of the Crusades, and it is performed together with a selection of Monteverdi madrigals.

General cast
Tancredi..................... Attila Erdős
Clorinda..................... Ildikó Megyimórecz
Testo.......................... Gyula Rab
Madrigal singers: Zsófia Nagy / Krisztina Simon / Ferenc Endrész

Authors
Libretto: Torquato Tasso
Director: Ádám Tulassay

Robert North–Bob Downes: Troy Game
Contemporary Opera - Premier

American choreographer Robert North originally created this one-act dance show in 1974 for the male dancers of the London Contemporary Dance Theatre to show, with an ironic slant, the expression in dance of masculinity and the "macho spirit". Its uniqueness arises from the fact that, in the second half of the 20th century, a ballet performance solely by males was a great rarity. Today it is a modern classical and has entered into the repertoire of a number of the world's major companies.  

General cast
1st boy...................... Gergely Leblanc
2nd boy..................... Mikalai Radziush
3rd boy...................... Vince Topolánszky
4th boy...................... Gergő Ármin Balázsi
5th boy...................... Yago Guerra
6th boy...................... Dávid Molnár
7th boy...................... Balázs Majoros
8th boy...................... András Róna

Authors
Choreographer: Robert North
Composer: Bob Downes
Costume designer: Peter Farmer
Lighting designer: Kirk Bookman
Répétiteur: Julian Moss
Company répétiteur: György Szirb

Robert North–Bob Downes: Troy Game – with Amazons
Contemporary Opera - Premier

American choreographer Robert North originally created this one-ace dance show in 1974 for the male dancers of the London Contemporary Dance Theatre to show, with an ironic slant, the expression in dance of masculinity and the "macho spirit". Its uniqueness arises from the fact that, in the second half of the 20th century, a ballet performance solely by males was a great rarity. Today it is a modern classical and ahas entered into the repertoire of a number of the world's major companies.
The Hungarian National Ballet, however, has put a twist on the work: departing from tradition, certain of our performances will feature, in place of the men, "amazons" performing sequences of movement of masculine difficulty.
The first time the female version of this work was performed in September 2014 by the Hungarian National Ballet, which was also its European premiere.

General cast
1st girl...................... Anna Krupp / Ágnes Kelemen
2nd girl..................... Kristina Starostina / Liudmila Mizinova
3rd girl...................... Ildikó Boros / Claudia García Carriera
4th girl...................... Aglaja Sawatzki / Cristina Balaban
5th girl...................... Yuki Wakabayashi / Yuka Asai
6th girl...................... Diana Kosyreva / Lea Földi
7th girl...................... Lili Felméry / Kateryna Tarasova
8th girl...................... Miyu Takamori / Yourim Lee

Authors
Choreographer: Robert North
Composer: Bob Downes
Costume designer: Peter Farmer
Lighting designer: Kirk Bookman
Stager: Julian Moss
Répétiteur: Edit Rujsz